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LIX Seminar - « Augmenting bodies using AI : from human know-how to Computer Aided Design »

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Centre Inria-Saclay - Bât. Alan Turing

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Within the framework of its Master in "Artificial Intelligence & Advanced Visual Computing", LIX, with the support of the DATAIA Institute, is organizing a series of seminars on the theme "Ethical issues, law & novel applications of AI".
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François Faure , CEO of Antascope, will lead the seminar on October 22.

The seminar will be in the room Sophie Germain from 1.30pm to 3pm.

From walking sticks to bionic arms, people have always augmented their bodies with supplementary or replacement parts to improve their function, comfort or aesthetics. For optimal efficiency, these must be personalized to precisely fit the body, and their design requires significant knowledge and skills on anatomy and mechanics. The Orthotics and Prosthetics (O&P) domain has developed a large body of know-how to replicate body parts using plaster, design and sculpt shapes, and mold corresponding devices. This is applied to various body parts such as teeth, limbs, ears. Unfortunately, these techniques are empirical and operator-dependent. To improve precision, O&P increasingly uses digital imaging and design software. However, most of the current software essentially consist of digital sculpting toolboxes, therefore the design process remains virtually as empirical and operator-dependent as before. 

In this talk, we present Anatoscope’s approach to tackle the challenge of precision in O&P. To really improve on Computer Assisted Design for O&P, we need to map the skills of good practitioners to numerical methods implemented in computers. Knowledge can be formulated using models and algorithmes, while some skills are easily expressed as rules, and others are more easily described using examples. Our artificial intelligence combines these paradigms through constrained optimizations solved using various strategies. We illustrate these using various examples of dental and orthopedic design.

Send an e-mail to com-dataia@inria.fr to register